'Fraid I have to respectfully disagree...

Seems to me that smart gameplay by Evil and Danielle would be, as in all cases, to maximize their value and minimize their downsides. To stick around in this sort of game, you have to be offering something to the people around you. If you're a liability you're going to be cut.

Think Dr. Will. He offered friendship. He offered popularity. He offered fun and interesting times. He made you cool by association. And most importantly he offered security in the game. He offered you a chance at a million dollars. A MILLION dollars, and all you had to do was play with him and it would be alright. It would be easy. Survivor's Hatch did the exact same thing the first time around. You have to make them want you for very specific reasons. You have to appeal to people on more than one level.

What Evil and Danielle have done though is, right out of the gate, to isolate themselves from Kail, Jen, Nick and Zack and Mike. If Joe wasn't such a ****head, or if any one of those people had won HOH again, there's no way both of them could have survived.

And that's just week 1 and 2. Once they had brought Nick onto their side, someone who would have been a steadfast ally (that is to say, free vote) all the way to the end, they lost no time in engineering the movement to vote him out.

And now they have set themselves apart from Jameka, Dustin, Eric, Jessica and Amber, who are now the only five HG's in a game of 13 people (Carol was Jessica's enemy and Joe was Dustin's) who have never been involved in attacking a member of LNC. This makes Evil/Danielle no more useful than Zack or Kail.

In fact, I'd rather be aligned with Zack or Kail because:
1)I'd be fairly confident that they're not going to turn on me completely randomly, whereas knowing what we know about Evil and Danielle, either of them not only could, but probably would.

2) Zack and Kail and Jen will definitely, DEFINITELY vote for Evil and Danielle every single time they're nominated no matter what, whereas I'm not even sure that either Evil or Danielle have voted for Jen or Kail even once. These people don't do what they're supposed to do and that's not helpful in the least to anybody else.

The only difference between Evil's game and Kail's game is that Kail has more friends. Evil's team just happens to have HOH every time and it's too early to rock the boat, IMO.